I have
found and posted the actual voter list software used widely throughout the USA (TN, WI, PA, CO, KS...) for
Accenture voter registration and voter histories. I located the files on a
magnetic backup tape of the hard drive of a county elections IT employee, part
of a 120-gig set of discovery files.

The
Accenture voter registration / voter history software is highly problematic, and
has been reported switching voter parties in Colorado, and losing voter histories in Tennessee. Although it is now widely known
that Accenture voter list software gets it wrong, just WHY the program
misreports voter information so often has never been explained. I am hoping
that by releasing this software to the public, it may shed light on what's
really going on with our voter registration systems.

I also
posted a Tennessee file with work orders and release notes which shows the
Accenture software has a history of tripling votes in certain
("random")voter histories, going back to 2004. Except it is not
random: Other files I discovered prove it is with primarily suburban Republican
precincts that votes are somehow being recorded twice and sometimes three times
for certain voters in the voter history report, and this didn't just happen in
2004; it also happened in the 2008 presidential primary and in May and August
2010, and according to election ommission notes in Shelby County, also in the
2012 presidential primary.

Computer
buffs, have at it. Much source code exists within the tructure because it is
built on MS Access. I do not read source code, though I can see some structural
problems with the software (for example, it allows political party ID to be set
differently from one precinct to another).

Does this article have any bearing on the recent election in Wisconsin? No, not directly, of course. But in Wisconsin, as in other states in recent years, there were serious disparities between exit polls and official vote tabulations. It is my understanding that such large discrepancies were once uncommon. Much has been written on the subject. Between BlackBoxVoting.com and the links below, anyone interested can begin to learn more about the vulnerability of our electronic voting systems.

Last Friday we blogged here
about the need to stop thinking about how progressive and Democratic
electioneering has failed us, and think harder about how the disloyal
opposition has been busy tinkering with our elections. And perhaps not just by
suppressing and de-legitimizing voters.

According to Fitrakis, the
discrepancies in the ultimate reported vote totals and exit polling in
Wisconsin and elsewhere simply have been too broad and widespread to discount
the possibility that someone has been tampering with voting machines to rig
outcomes.

It's hard to get traction on
this, because even though skeptics and experts have been sounding the alarm for
much of the past decade, it just sounds too much like a bad spy movie, too
outlandish and over the top. But science and mathematics in particular force no
other conclusion. Fitrakis:

One of my favorite
mathematicians is Richard Charnin http://richardcharnin.com/ who on his
website using readily available public information, calculates the odds of the
so-called ‘red shift” occurring from the 1988 to 2008 presidential elections.
The red shift refers to the overwhelming pick up of votes by the Republican
Party in recorded votes over what actual voters report to exit pollsters.

In Charnin’s analysis of
exit poll data, we can say with a 95% confidence level – that means in 95 out
of 100 elections – that the exit polls will fall within a statistically
predictable margin of error. Charnin looked at 300 presidential state exit
polls from 1988 to 2008, 15 state elections would be expected to fall outside
the margin of error. Shockingly, 137 of the 300 state presidential exit polls
fell outside the margin of error.

What is the probability of
this happening?

“One in one million trillion
trillion trlllion trillion trillion trillion,” said Charnin.

More proof of Republican
operatives and sympathizers is found in the fact that 132 of the elections fell
outside the margin in favor of the GOP. We would expect eight.

Say you have a fair coin to
flip. We would expect that if we flip that coin there would be an even split
between heads and tails – or in this case, Republicans and Democrats. Election
results falling outside the margin of error should be equally split between
both parties. Yet, only five times, less than expected, did the extra votes
fall in the direction of the Democratic Party.

So what are the odds?
According to Charnin, of 132 out of 300 state presidential elections exceeding
the margin of error in the direction of the Republicans – one in 600 trillion
trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion.

The corporate-owned media
does not want to mention that the problems with the exit polls began with the
ascendancy of the former CIA Director George Herbert Walker Bush to the
presidency in 1988. It is also that year when the non-transparent push-and-pray
voting machines were introduced in the New Hampshire primary by Bush ally John Sununu. Bush, who rigged
elections for the CIA throughout the Third World did
unexpectedly well where the voting machines were brought in.

Sound to you too much like a
crackpot? But he's got his facts straight; now we're down to just arguing
causes. And there must be a causal factor besides sheer statistical chance, or,
if you're a Republican, fantastically beneficial blind luck.

Fitrakis is only the latest
in a growing chorus of voices concerned about voting machine integrity. Black
Box Voting has been working on this and other election integrity issues since
the early days following the 2000 presidential election fiasco. Seehttp://www.blackboxvoting.org

A major presidential
election looms. Concerned progressives need to start hammering on this issue,
writing their local newspapers, contacting their elected officials, and talking
to neighbors. Oh, transmit your concerns to the US Department of Justice, which
oversees the Voting Rights Act.

You could also contact the
federal Election Assistance Commission, which in theory oversees the certification
and reliability of election machines used in federal elections, but some
observers have their doubts. Truth is, only a voluntary federal certification
for voting machines is part of federal law, and each state has ultimate
jurisdiction over certification.

The statistical evidence is
alarming. That's not enough to pull the red emergency lever, but it's more than
enough to demand that our public officials and the news media -- who sponsor
the exit polling that increasingly seems out of synch with what final vote
tallies show -- pay closer attention to this potential and existential threat
to democracy.